[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Surgeon Generals Parting remarks

[Eunice Shankland]

Thanks Karen. Will work on it. Eunice

On Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 1:17 PM Ken Fisher via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

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> Dear Karen,
>
> Thanks for sharing this article.
>
> Volunteers and volunteering are still essential to the life of rural
> villages, where I have lived over the past 32 years.
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> And now, at 82 and moving back to the city, I continue to find voluntary
> engagement - the board of Theatre Kingston, the promotion of weekly rock &
> roll music for seniors, to name two.
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> At the beginning of COVID, in Sharbot Lake I initiated a village campaign
> to welcome newcomers fleeing the cities.
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> By and large, volunteering wasn’t their default setting.
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> Yet for the rural service clubs, churches, and community associations -
> with their aging membership, that was the moment to be open and supportive
> of strangers joining.
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> Those groups that were ‘open minded’ and acted open, grew.
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> How to make that national policy?
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> Love,
>
> Ken
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> On Jan 8, 2025, at 9:55 PM, Karen Snyder Troxel via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy’s tenure as US Surgeon General (since 2021,
> although he was also Surgeon General from 2013-2017) on January 7, 2025,
> wrote: “My Parting Prescription for America” which is “Community as the
> Formula for Fulfillment”.
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> His description of the importance of community speaks to my heart. I
> wonder how his message can make an impact on the problems he identifies.
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> The link is:
> https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/my-parting-prescription-for-america.pdf
> .
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> I would love to hear your responses.
>
> Peace and love,
>
> Karen Snyder Troxel
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